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  2. Battery cage - Wikipedia

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    Chickens in multiple-occupancy battery cages. Battery cages are a housing system used by factory farms for various animal production methods, but primarily for egg-laying hens. The name arises from the arrangement of rows and columns of identical cages connected, in a unit, as in an artillery battery. Although the term is usually applied to ...

  3. Poultry farming - Wikipedia

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    Yarding poultry farm. While often confused with free range farming, yarding is actually a separate method by which a hutch and fenced-off area outside are combined when farming poultry. The distinction is that free-range poultry are either totally unfenced, or the fence is so distant that it has little influence on their freedom of movement.

  4. Blockchain Chicken Farm - Wikipedia

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    A chicken farm in Hainan. Blockchain Chicken Farm focuses on the impact of technology in rural China, particularly as it relates to agriculture. The first major focus of the book is the "blockchain chicken farms" run by Bubuji (Chinese: 步步鸡), also known as GoGoChicken, a subsidiary of the technology arm of ZhongAn, China's largest insurance company.

  5. Concentrated animal feeding operation - Wikipedia

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    Smithfield Foods hog CAFO, Unionville, Missouri, 2013. In animal husbandry, a concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO), as defined by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), is an intensive animal feeding operation (AFO) in which over 1,000 animal units are confined for over 45 days a year.

  6. List of video games in development - Wikipedia

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    Farm life simulation: Marvelous [280] Untitled Story of Seasons single-player game Un­known Farm life simulation: Marvelous [280] Stranded Deep 2: Un­known Survival: North Beach Games Prague North Beach Games [281] Streets of Rage: Revolution: Un­known Beat 'em up: Un­known Sega [134] Subnautica 2 [a] Win, XSX/S: Survival, action-adventure ...

  7. Chick sexing - Wikipedia

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    Vent sexing in Wenchang, Hainan, China (2014). Vent sexing, also known simply as venting, involves squeezing the feces out of the chick, which opens up the chick's anal vent (called a cloaca) slightly, allowing the chicken sexer to see if the chick has a small "bump", which would indicate that the chick is a male.

  8. Automatic milking - Wikipedia

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    The milking process is the collection of tasks specifically devoted to extracting milk from an animal (rather than the broader field of dairy animal husbandry).This process may be broken down into several sub-tasks: collecting animals before milking, routing animals into the parlour, inspection and cleaning of teats, attachment of milking equipment to teats, and often massaging the back of the ...

  9. Forced molting - Wikipedia

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    Forced molting typically involves the removal of food and/or water from poultry for an extended period of time to reinvigorate egg-laying. Forced molting, sometimes known as induced molting, is the practice by some poultry industries of artificially provoking a flock to molt simultaneously, typically by withdrawing food for 7–14 days and sometimes also withdrawing water for an extended period.